Random Ramblings

Why is Kynlie wearing a little boy's outfit? Because every time she goes out to my mom & dad's house, she has a massive diaper blowout and she had already wore all of her cousin Lincoln's outfits that looked gender neutral! I keep forgetting to put a spare outfit in her diaper bag so luckily Lincoln shares!She stayed awake all day when Ken & Gina watched her while I was at the Health Fair, she must've known that they would be moving soon and wanted to get in all the time with them she could. She was very sleepy when she came home that night so she took a nap on her daddy.

Sorry all the pictures are of her sleeping but I couldn't resist snapping this shot of her sleeping with her big belly hanging out. She'll love this one in 15 years!
On Monday, she had an eye appointment with Dr. G in Bismarck. He said that everything looks great in her left eye and that he is not longer concerned that she will have to have another surgery to sew the spot down where there was blood during the initial surgery. We also found out that he is going to be done in 3 weeks. She will see Dr. L, the doctor that saw her in the NICU up until she had to have surgery. One nice thing will be that he goes to Dickinson so hopefully we won't have to continue to go to Bismarck once a month from now on.
We have been doing great around our house, Kynlie has started getting up in the night for another feeding, but we just sleep in a little longer in the morning to make up for it. She weighs 9 lb 8 oz. She is still in newborn diapers but wears mostly 0-3 month clothes. She is super smiley in the morning and usually crabby at night, before bed. It is awesome staying home with her, I wouldn't trade it for the world.

We are going to skip my brother's graduation ceremony and do the March for Babies walk in Dickinson. We appreciate everyone's donations towards reaching our goal, this is a cause that truly means a lot to us. March of Dimes created a lung surfactant that was use in Kynlie's lungs when she was days old that saved her life. When people say that preemie's lungs are not developed, that is not actually the case. Their lungs are mostly developed, they don't make the surfactant needed to keep their lungs intact and inflated. The surfactant that March of Dimes created does that for them. If anyone is interested in donating or walking, click on the widget on the side of my blog. Thanks again to everyone who has donated.

Kynlie's Baptism

Kynlie got baptized last night at St. John's Catholic Church. Father Tobin baptized her which is really neat because he baptized me 26 years ago. Ken and Gina are her Godparents.

Kynlie with her Uncle-Godfather Ken


Kynlie with her cake.

The Moore Family

The O'Donnell Family, minus Jordan and Ashley who couldn't make it.

Look at my beautiful dress.

Kynlie and her Godmother and Godfather, Gina and Ken

Getting baptized was exhausting!

One perfect baby

Kynlie got bored watching me mop yesterday.

Ten perfect toes


One perfect baby

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Remodel project 90% done

Here are the changes that have been made since we started our remodel project. The tile is done on the stairs going down from the new living room. The carpet is in, painting done, recessed can lighting in and we are moved down there. I still have to get all the pictures hung and find some curtains. The detail in the tile. I love it!

Looking from the south wall, upstairs is the new dining room and the kitchen. To the left is the laundry room and a bathroom that have both been redone since we moved in and a bedroom. We still have some trim work around the tile and in the far right corner by the stairs is going to be the entertainment center, it is getting built today.
Looking down to the living room from the dining room. I honestly have to say that the room is smaller than I thought once we got all our furniture down there. What I had visioned was the couch on the south wall with end tables on either side, then chairs on either side of them, in a "U"shape. It didn't quite work, but we are looking at mabye getting a sectional couch and that would fill the room a lot better.

The old dining room is now storing the entertainment center from the old living room and the couch that was downstairs. The plan is to buy a tall 4 place table and that room will be used a s a little breakfast nook. On a side note, all our furniture is for sale along with the 2 year old 42" Polaroid tv. The entertainment center is solid oak, Montana made, the tv fits perfectly inside, so if someone takes both, we'll sell it cheaper. All the furniture downstairs is also for sale, 2 blue recliners and a blue recliner couch. Everything is in great condition. If anyone is interested or knows anyone that is interested please call and make an offer. 406-778-3875

The new dining room. All this room got was a fresh coat of paint and the uppercase living words. The plan is to some day buy a hutch and buffet for the dining room, so for now it looks kind of empty. I also have to do some different lighting in here, what I am thinking is of taking the light

out of the kitchen and putting it in here and putting recessed cans in the kitchen. It should be a fairly easy job as the ceiling is open above that floor. You can see that the crown molding is a couple inches below the ceiling, there are rope lights in it so it gives a really pretty effect when it is dark out.

6 months

I can't believe it, my baby girl is 6 months old today. Her adjusted age is 9 weeks and that's how long we have been home with her.

Napping on the couch.


Sorry for the blurriness, but you can see how active she is by how hard it is to get a picture of her.

Here's what Kynlie is up to:

• She weighs 8 lb 3 oz. She is gaining about an ounce a day.
• Eats 4 oz when she is bottle fed.
• Sleeps through the night, she wakes up around 5 to eat, then sleeps until 9.
• Holds her head up very well.
• Sits in her Bumbo chair and is very proud of herself that she can.
• Smiles and coos a lot. Mostly in the morning and evening.
• Is still wearing newborn diapers.
• Wears some 0-3 month clothes and some newborn clothes still fit her.
• Holds herself up on her elbows during tummy time.
• Tracks objects very well with her eyes.
• Can hold all her weight standing, just needs support for balance.
• Still sleeps in her vibratey chair, aka, her bed, at night (to prevent puking).
• Is puking significantly less after eating, just needs to be kept upright.
• Has the cutest pouty lip and fake sad cry.
• Is a great traveler, just grunts when we slow down for towns and cries at stop lights.
• Loves being carried in the Moby wrap.
• Is very much a daddy's girl already.
• Only wears her apnea monitor at night, and that's just because we paid for it for the month and don't have to go back to Bismarck until the 26th.
• Is off all medications, just gets 1 ml of Vitamin D in her bottle and will be on as long as she is getting breast milk.
• She is a great baby, she just wants her stomach full and prefers to be in someone's arms.

Sitting with her puppy Violet

I have to say that I have the best job in the world being able to stay at home with Kynlie. We haven't been home much because it's been so busy the past few weeks here, but I am working on getting into a routine with Kynlie. I am really looking forward to it being nice enough out to go on walks with her and just be able to be outside with her, the wind really puts a damper on that for now.

Happy Birthday Kynlie Faith, mommy & daddy love you so much.

My Daddy Dresses Me

I really wish I had thought about doing this post earlier because I missed some very unique outfits, but here are some of Kynlie's outfits that her daddy thought looked good. Kynlie is just lucky that she is already cute so it doesn't matter what she wears. I do have to say that I do appreciate Neil dressing Kynlie though, this is not a complaining post, just thought everyone might like a chuckle.

Flowers go together right, it doesn't matter what color they are.
Ruffle in the back?
So if flowers go together no matter what the color, so do hearts right? I can see how he might have thought this one would match, but there's just something about it that doesn't and I can't quite figure out what it is.

No matter what her daddy dresses her in, Kynlie is already a daddy's girl and I'm sure she always will be.

Happy Easter

The Easter bunny visited Kynlie this morning. Don't be fooled, the Reeses peanut butter eggs were left for mom & dad! She got a puppy that knows her name and some of her daddy's favorite books to read to her, the Berenstein Bears Easter books.

She also really loves sitting in her Bumbo chair. We do have to put a blanket on one side of her because she isn't really big enough to sit in it. This was her watching me pull staples out of the stairs when we had the carpet tore up.

Kynlie got to meet a very special little boy on Thursday. Her cousin Lincoln James Phillips was born at 11:45 am, weighing 7 lb and was 19 1/2" long. Kynlie is about a pound bigger than Lincoln is and probably about 1" longer. She is also almost 6 months older than he is! It is going to be fun watching these two grow up together and raise mischief. Welcome to the world Lincoln.
We had a great Easter, we went to church then went down to Neil's parent's cabin in the Long Pines. It was very laid back and quiet, except for Sterling snacking on a dead deer carcass acrosst he road, then coming back in and puking it up. He had to get a bath when we got home.

We hope everyone had a great Easter and remembered the reason for the celebration.